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Why are you guys so good at cricket? Is cricket really popular in Australia? Australia won 6 out of 13 World Cups and was the runner up in 2 other World Cups. That's straight-up dominance.
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Huh??
What exactly was the problem???
I’m not too concerned since russia‘s fate is to eventually become China’s canada or america’s Australia.
International students in Canada, ie Indian students are abusing the welfare provisions of Canadian society By going to multiple food banks and charities for food. You never had this problem when Chinese students were the largest groups attending uni in Canada.
The fact that international ie Indian students are having to do this indicates they most likely lied on their application regarding having sufficient income to support themselves. I’ve studied as an international student in America and you have to show bank statements and family members putting large deposited in U.S. banks to support you. I’d suspect these Indians students are lying on their applications and then once they get their food in the door, they’re just surviving until they can get a green card.
"From your lips to God's ears"...but how you figure that?? Seems too easy to rely on Russian demographics neutralizing their historical ambitions -- even Putin never actually wanted to be partnered with China and it's doubtful any successor would be as pragmatic (like they'd need to appeal to Russian nationalism which let's not forget has for an origin story their triumph over the Mongol Yoke...).
The issues with Russian demographics are overstated. Western Europe has as much of an issue with demographics or more.
Sure, their population will shrink, but so will that of the major powers around them. And Russia does have quite a lot of migrants from the Central Asian republics coming in.
Their major issue is still lack of automation, and that is why they need someone who can provide them with those capabilities.
Lethe
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Unfortunately the world of cricket is smaller than one might like. As you can see only ten nations contested the 2023 World Cup and of those ten perhaps only half were ever plausibly candidates to take home the trophy. The great disappointment in world cricket over the previous generation has been the decline of the "West Indies" (mostly former British territories throughout the Caribbean) as a source of talent, and I believe this is attributed mostly to contemporary American sports offering better pathways and paychecks for players from those regions. On the other hand, the great success story in recent years is the rise of Afghanistan as a cricketing nation. Indeed, Afghanistan were very unlucky to lose to Australia a couple weeks back after having us on the ropes (we were saved by a double-century from Glenn Maxwell in what has been widely acknowledged as one of the most extraordinary individual performances in the history of international one-day cricket). If Afghanistan had won that match they could plausibly have gone on to feature in the semi-finals. It is a remarkable journey for a national team that has obviously been birthed under very difficult circumstances. That cricket has emerged as the dominant sport across the 2-billion people of South Asia gives it a secure future, but of course it would be nice for the sport to enjoy a broader geographic reach.
In Australia, cricket is not amongst the most popular sports (by most metrics that would be Australian Rules Football at the national level, or Rugby in NSW/QLD) but it has a certain prestige in the national culture that numbers alone do not reflect. There was a period of perhaps 15 years from mid-1990s to late 2000s in which Australia totally dominated all forms of international cricket. Over the past generation the financial centre of world cricket has moved progressively to India, particularly in the form of the Indian Premier League, and India has enjoyed great success in recent years with players forged in that great cauldron of talent. Hence this loss will have been particularly frustrating for India, as yet another loss to an old foe that has frustrated them on so many previous occasions, of a much-anticipated future failing to arrive.
If you are doing any reading about cricket it would do well to be aware that there are three basic forms of the game. The basics of bowling, batting, fielding, making runs and taking wickets remain the same across each format, but each requires a different balance of offensive and defensive tactics, mental resilience and player management, etc. such that it is not uncommon for individual players to find more success in one format than another.
"Twenty20" or "T20" Cricket: Each team plays 20 overs (delivers/faces 20x6 = 120 balls). Matches last ~3hrs. This is the IPL format.
One-Day Cricket: Most commonly, each team plays 50 overs, as in the "One-Day International" (ODI) format. Matches last for up to 8 hours, i.e. are concluded within a single day. The ICC Cricket World Cup uses this format.
First-Class or Test Cricket: This is the form of the game where matches can last 3-5 days. Unlike the previous two formats there is no hard cap on the number of overs. Typically, a series of matches are played over the course of weeks or even months. For example, Australia will shortly host Pakistan for a 3-test series with matches played 14-18 December, 26-30 December, 3-7 January.
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How could China actually get its loans paid by an anti-China government??
I'm genuinely curious what the game plan is with getting all these loans paid back...China's already had to forgive at least two dozen of its African loans so far -- loans that were low or even no-interest to begin with! And still I personally know two Africans who think China's bullying Taiwan and practicing predatory lending and neo-colonialism....